Important Questions About Life Extension
Fight Aging! links and passes on some important questions to ponder about life extension. Here are the questions plus my quick answers:
- What is the story of your life extension commitment?
I've been blogging on the subject for three years. I actively support organizations that are working on life extension (MPrize) as well as those that support development of the infrastructure that will make it possible (Foresight).
- Is it a commitment for moderate or maximum life extension?
Maximum. Moderate life extension is just a step along the way.
- What is your favourite argument supporting human life extension?
Answered here.
- What is the most probable technological draft of human life extension, which technology or discipline has the biggest chance to reach it earliest? (regenerative medicine, nanotechnology, gene therapy, caloric restriction, bionics, hormones, antioxidants, …)
Hard to say. My take is that things like calorie restriction (or at least a chemically derived simulation thereof) and antioxidants are the staging grounds. They will get us started. But serious life extension will come about via gene therapy, nanotechnology,etc.
- When?
Soon. Faster, please.
- What can blogs do for LE?
Keep fighting the fight.